Anything Goes

Brenda Lee · For the First Time (w. Pete Fontaine) [Decca] [1968]

(Cole Porter)



In olden days a glimpse of stocking

Was looked on as something shocking

Now, heaven knows

Anything goes.



Good authors, too, who once knew better words

Now only use four letter words

Writing prose

Anything goes.



The world has gone mad today

And goods bad today and blacks white today

And days, night today when most guys today

That women prize today are just silly gigolos.



And I no I'm not a great romancer

But to say I'm gonna answer

When I propose

Honey, anything goes.



The world has gone mad today

And goods bad today and blacks white today

And days night today when most guys today

That women prize today are just silly gigolos.



Though I'm not a great romancer

I know I'm gonna answer

When you propose

Anything goes.



Anything goes.

Anything goes...